- 1
- Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead
- came out as one man and assembled before the LORD in Mizpah.
- 2
- The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places
- in the assembly of the people of God,
- four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords.
- 3
- (The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.)
- Then the Israelites said, "Tell us how this awful thing happened."
- 4
- So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said,
- "I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
- 5
- During the night the men of Gibeah came after me and surrounded
- the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.
- 6
- I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of
- Israel's inheritance, because they committed this lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
- 7
- Now, all you Israelites, speak up and give your verdict."
- 8
- All the people rose as one man, saying, "None of us will go home.
- No, not one of us will return to his house.
- 9
- But now this is what we'll do to Gibeah:
- We'll go up against it as the lot directs.
- 10
- We'll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel,
- and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand,
- to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah
- in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for all this vileness done in Israel."
- 11
- So all the men of Israel got together and united as one man against the city.
- 12
- The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,
- "What about this awful crime that was committed among you?
- 13
- Now surrender those wicked men of Gibeah so that we may put them to death
- and purge the evil from Israel."
- But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.
- 14
- From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites.
- 15
- At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns,
- in addition to seven hundred chosen men from those living in Gibeah.
- 16
- Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were
- left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
- 17
- Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen,
- all of them fighting men.
- 18
- The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God.
- They said, "Who of us shall go first to fight against the Benjamites?"
- The LORD replied, "Judah shall go first."
- 19
- The next morning the Israelites got up and pitched camp near Gibeah.
- 20
- The men of Israel went out to fight the Benjamites
- and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.
- 21
- The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down
- twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.
- 22
- But the men of Israel encouraged one another and again took up
- their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.
- 23
- The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening,
- and they inquired of the LORD. They said, "Shall we go up again to battle
- against the Benjamites, our brothers?" The LORD answered, "Go up against them."
- 24
- Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day.
- 25
- This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them,
- they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
- 26
- Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel,
- and there they sat weeping before the LORD.
- They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings
- and fellowship offerings to the LORD.
- 27
- And the Israelites inquired of the LORD.
- (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,
- 28
- with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.)
- They asked, "Shall we go up again to battle with Benjamin our brother, or not?"
- The LORD responded, "Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands."
- 29
- Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.
- 30
- They went up against the Benjamites on the third day
- and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.
- 31
- The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city.
- They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before,
- so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads--
- the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
- 32
- While the Benjamites were saying, "We are defeating them as before,"
- the Israelites were saying, "Let's retreat and draw them away
- from the city to the roads."
- 33
- All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar,
- and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gibeah.
- 34
- Then ten thousand of Israel's finest men made a frontal attack on Gibeah.
- The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was.
- 35
- The LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day
- the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
- 36
- Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten.
- Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin,
- because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.
- 37
- The men who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah,
- spread out and put the whole city to the sword.
- 38
- The men of Israel had arranged with the ambush that
- they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
- 39
- and then the men of Israel would turn in the battle.
- The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel (about thirty),
- and they said, "We are defeating them as in the first battle."
- 40
- But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites
- turned and saw the smoke of the whole city going up into the sky.
- 41
- Then the men of Israel turned on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified,
- because they realized that disaster had come upon them.
- 42
- So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the desert,
- but they could not escape the battle. And the men of Israel
- who came out of the towns cut them down there.
- 43
- They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily overran them
- in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
- 44
- Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.
- 45
- As they turned and fled toward the desert to the rock of Rimmon,
- the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads.
- They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and
- struck down two thousand more.
- 46
- On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell,
- all of them valiant fighters.
- 47
- But six hundred men turned and fled into the desert to the rock of Rimmon,
- where they stayed four months.
- 48
- The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword,
- including the animals and everything else they found.
- All the towns they came across they set on fire.
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